Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Private F. G. Boniface, Royal Sussex Regiment, who was killed in action on the Somme in July 1916

British War and Victory Medals (G-4967 Pte., R. Suss. R.), together with regimental badge, good very fine (3) £80-100

Frederick George Boniface was killed in action on the Somme on 23 July 1916, while serving in the 2nd Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment - alongside the 2nd Battalion, K.R.R.C., his unit was met with heavy machine-gun fire in an attack on Munster Alley. Aged 24 years, and the son of David and Amelia Boniface of Brighton, Sussex, he has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.